My wife and I were discussing the details of how a zone pass defense in the NFL is supposed to work. Things like when do you pass off a guy in your zone to somebody else? Is it different when your guy is running a crossing pattern or when he is going deep? How do you know if you have help from a safety and then what do you do? When more than one guy comes into your zone how is he covered? Who picks up a guy coming late from the backfield?
After watching the Cardinals play, we thought those topics would be good ones to cover in the next meeting with the Cardinal defense.
Stephen Robb, Fountain Hills
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